Talib Kweli’s new independent album comes out digitally on January 25th, 2011 in North America, and in all formats in the rest of the world:

As a boy growing up in Brooklyn, Kweli saw gutters that ran with dirt, oil and water, revealing a shimmering rainbow to his child’s eyes. Drawing its title from this memory, this album puts at the raw center what his music has been doing for years: finding and preserving the beautiful in the hideous; the rainbows in the gutter. Weaving the lyrical and the gritty, the autobiographical with an honest, no-holds- barred hip-hop spirit; Kweli sticks fiercely to what feels true to him in creating the sound of this album. Without being tied to any particular label’s conception of what his sound should be or when his work should hit his fans, Kweli is free to build his most personal album yet in both content and motivation. Kweli’s true solo career has only just begun, and although the future holds more collaboration, “Gutter Rainbows” marks a new stage in the long and ever-evolving career of Talib Kweli.

this co-worker of mine was going around asking people if they’d like to participate in copping a xmas gift for dyfs kids…turns out these kids had pull all types of reckless gifts on their wish list, like laptops, DS, jordans… I agree’d but was lucky to find a matching hat scarf and glove set.